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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1911
Page
7
OCR fragment lists pricing clauses for printing jobs. rates include fifteen cents per inch for unspecified contracts, twelve and a half cents per inch for 1200 inches yearly, Want ads at one cent per line, and professional cards at seventy five cents per inch per month or 67.60 per year paid in advance. unclear terms and quantities.
At July council, an ordinance granting a gas plant franchise will receive its second reading next Monday. The piece discusses gas from lignite, potential briquettes, rate regulation, and public ownership safeguards. It weighs quality standards, purchase options, and city benefits against corporate profits.
The Palladium criticizes a new act banning church officers from soliciting subscriptions from political candidates, arguing it curbs church power and likens such pressure to blackmail. The piece questions editorials on The Prophet from Utah and wonders if Uncle Joe Cannon’s past links him to Utah politics.
The Ways and Means committee reports 77 subscribers at 25 dollars each totaling 1925 dollars to secure grounds for lease to the American Flax Fibre Company. Joint action with the Site committee urged to contact the firm and expedite mill location, while other measures cover grain prices, road improvements near Baker Ferry, and seed bed practice per State Botanist Bolley.
Crosby R D Sutherland and Geo W Johnson of Williston stop in Crosby on return from Devils Lake where they spent days at Sutherland’s cottage for state encampment and Chautauqua. L B Burns of Alexander reports McKenzie county crops are weaker but beef cattle look good with a hopeful market outlook.
The Graphic expresses gratitude to loyal correspondents across the county for promptly submitting news items ahead of schedule. The note thanks readers for their ready compliance enabling easier publication.
A long list from Grand Forks to Valley City details incidents including a shooting injuring John Sutherland, multiple warehouse and livery fires, burglaries and robberies, arrests for assault and speeding, a fatal gasoline explosion in Dickinson, a despondent death, and various court actions.
W N Dickinson will hold an auction at Market square Williston next Saturday August 5. The sale includes horses household goods and other articles. The Bergman Dickson Land Co offers cash for land and money on hand for good loans.
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